To be fair, I almost forgot today is the International Day Against Racism. Photo by Kelly : https://www.pexels.com/photo/roadway-with-end-racism-now-title-in-town-4642503/ I have never really been a big believer in these kinds of awareness days. Not because the topic is not important. Quite the opposite. It is too important to fit into just one day. Racism does not appear once a year. It is everywhere. And for me, it is deeply personal. I grew up watching my stepfather navigate a world...

About unfinished chapters, quiet doubts, and the courage to finish anyway. The first time I opened a new Word document to start writing my final CAS paper, I stared at the screen and thought: How on earth do people write 20 academic pages? Twenty pages may not sound like much. But they become surprisingly long when you have absolutely no experience in academic writing. And that was exactly my situation. A few years earlier, a good friend of mine had forwarded me a link to the CAS African...

When I first started writing and sharing as "Nwanyiocha", I imagined my audience as distant strangers . People somewhere out there on the...